MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Aaron Siegel wrote:

> Hello
>
> I need to convert the some Macintosh files to a Unix/Windows format. 
> Has any
> one been able to install MacPerl, Mac::Files, or Mac::MoreFiles on 
> their
> FreeBSD system?  Can you recommend another solutions for converting 
> Macintosh
> files? I have look at Macutils but it did not work.
>

What kind of files?  text files?  Are you trying to convert the line 
endings from the Mac standard to the Unix standard (which is different 
than the Windows standard).

My remembrance is that Mac files end in RETURN (ctrl-M) while Unix 
files end in LINE FEED (ctrl-L) and Windows has both.

Anyway, if you are trying to convert Mac text files (like perl) to a 
Unix text files, just use FTP from the Mac to the Unix system in TEXT 
mode, not BINARY mode.

Chad